Age of Transparency Update: DOE Edition

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  March 6th at 12:00 PM  | 

It’s a familiar-sounding story. Sometime in the past, the Executive Branch surreptitiously met with Energy Industry interests to craft policy on energy issues. Specifically, officials of the Department of Energy met with energy lobbyists and friendly think-tankers to rebut a university study that cast the industry in a bad light. When the ranking member of the congressional committee charged with oversight in this area asked | Read More »

Policies of the Eeeeevil Dick Cheney Alive & Well in Obama White House

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  July 23rd at 02:55 PM  | 

So lobbyists and executives representing the energy industry having private talks with the Vice President represent same kind of evil cabal, while lobbyists and executives representing health care interests have nothing but the good of the people in mind. Right. Health care industry executives on White House guest list President Barack Obama’s administration began holding private meetings with health industry executives at the White House | Read More »